On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Roger D. Peng wrote:
> When I build R-devel (or the alpha snapshots) on a system without makeinfo >=
> 4.7, I get a warning about not being able to build HTML/Info help pages after
> running 'configure' (but 'make' runs smoothly and there are no errors).
> However, when I run 'make install' I get an error, something like
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/html'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/manual'
> creating doc/html/resources.html
> make[3]: *** [../html/resources.html] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/manual'
> installing doc/html ...
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/html/search'
> installing doc/html/search ...
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rpeng/R-local/src/R-devel/doc/html/search'
> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `resources.html': No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [install] Error 1
> [... more errors ...]
>> Am I correct in assuming that I get this because I don't have the correct
> makeinfo version?
No. The intention is that file should be in the tarball. It seems to be.
Are you using builddir == srcdir or not? Both seem to work for me.
The line
> creating doc/html/resources.html
should not occur when building from a tarball, as it comes from
@if test ! -f "$(srcdir)/resources.html" || test -f non-tarball ; then \
(cd ../manual && $(MAKE) html-non-svn) ; \
touch non-tarball ; \
Have you perchance previously built from an SVN checkout in the same dir?
> If so, is this the intended behavior of 'make install'? I
> figured I should be able to install R even if I couldn't build the HTML/Info
> help pages, but....
If building from a tarball, yes. The requirements for building from an
SVN checkout are more stringent.
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